Hamilton was in a league of his own, even over his Mercedes team-mate\nValtteri Bottas, as the 34-year-old Briton took his sixth win in eight races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The five-time champion leads Bottas in this year’s title race by 36 points –\na win and a fifth place – after just eight races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bottas finished a distant second, holding off an attack from Ferrari’s\nCharles Leclerc on the final lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari took fourth and\nfifth and the only minor irritation for Hamilton was that Vettel managed to\nsteal the point for fastest lap, by virtue of a late pit stop for fresh soft\ntyres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamilton was in control from the start, after converting pole position into\na lead at the first corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He set a steady pace in the opening laps as he looked after his tyres with a\nfull fuel load, but as the pit stops approached, Hamilton piled on the\npressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He extended his lead over Bottas by nearly five seconds in eight laps before\nthe Finn was called in first for his pit stop on lap 23 to ensure he covered\nLeclerc, who had stopped two laps before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamilton followed Bottas in, and re-emerged with an even bigger lead of 11\nseconds, and the race was effectively over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a generally soporific race, with little in the way of competitive\ntension among the front-running cars, and the championship looks to be heading\nin the same direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamilton and Bottas were evenly matched in the first few races of the\nseason, but the Briton has found another gear in the past three events and his\nteam-mate currently looks a bit breathless as he tries to keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About French Grand Prix<\/strong> Hamilton was in a league of his own, even over his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, as the 34-year-old Briton took his sixth win in eight races. The five-time champion leads Bottas in this year’s title race by 36 points – a win and a fifth place – after just eight races. Bottas finished a distant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt is one of the oldest motor races in the world
\nIt is first held at 1906<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"